Mr. Rostron Duckworthasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works and Planning what steps the Government are taking to ensure that war factories unneeded after the war will be treated as part of projected garden cities and not allowed to revert to exploiters as was the case at Slough after the last war?
§ Mr. H. StraussMy Noble Friend recognises the importance of the treatment of Government factories after the war, and information is now being collected which will facilitate decisions on the future use, removal or disposal of such factories in the light of the circumstances then prevailing.